fire departments has been the focus of many lawsuits. In court documents, the city said of the judge’s finding of bias: “Under the Court’s faulty analysis, any rational jury would necessarily find that the City deliberately used facially neutral exams to suppress black employment even as it conducted a targeted multi-million-dollar minority recruitment campaign, enlisted Columbia University to study methods of maximizing FDNY diversity, increased the minority composition of its other uniformed services, engaged an expert with a mandate to design an improved exam, and devised a panoply of other devices to diversify the FDNY’s ranks” When all the proceedings have been completed, the damages, if any, that the city will have to pay will be far less than $128 million,” he said.

As the court itself noted, any damages the city ultimately must pay will be reduced by the amount each member of the class earned. “We believe the court’s latest opinion is erroneous and, in any event, is the first step in a lengthy process. Cardozo, New York City’s corporation counsel, disputed the decision. While the city’s other uniformed services have made rapid progress integrating black members into their ranks, the Fire Department has stagnated and at times retrogressed.” “This pattern of underrepresentation has remained essentially unchanged since at least the 1960s. In other words, in a city of over eight million people, and out of a force with 8,998 firefighters, there were only 303 black firefighters.

“According to the most recent census data, black residents make up 25.6% of New York City’s population when this case was filed in 2007, black firefighters accounted for only 3.4% of the Department’s force. “For decades, black and other minority firefighters have been severely underrepresented in the Department’s ranks. “There has been one persistent stain on the Fire Department’s record,” the lawsuit said. Because of the hereditary nature of the fire department, white candidates were recruited and supported throughout the application process by family or neighborhood contacts and whites consistently passed while minority candidates failed. The lawsuit alleged that the exams had little to do with firefighting and instead focused on cognitive and reading skills. A group of black firefighters alleged the city had intentionally discriminated against them, violating Title VII, the U.S. City of New York) over fire department entrance exams they said discriminated against black and Latino applicants. The federal government had sued the city (United States of America and Vulcan Society Inc. He called it the “consequences of the city’s decision to ignore clear violations of federal law.”

Garufis said in his ruling on the class action lawsuit. “It has been in the city’s power to prevent or remedy the need for damages proceedings for a decade, and it has not done so,” U.S. The judge also ordered the FDNY to hire 293 black and Latino applicants. district judge ordered New York City to pay $128 million in to firefighters who allege the city used an entrance exam that deliberately sought to keep African-Americans and Latino Americans off the force. They seek unspecified damages, back pay and the return of job titles for alleged age discrimination under the city and state human rights laws and for working in a hostile and retaliatory work environment. The plaintiffs include ex-FDNY Assistant Chief of Fire Prevention Joe Jardin, 61 Assistant Chief of Operations Michael Gala, 62 and Chief of Uniformed Personnel Michael Massucci, 59.

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